Hartford Courant

The unsolved 19-year-old murder of Yale student Suzanne Jovin is getting renewed attention by Connecticut law enforcement, with an assistant state’s attorney spending eight hours a week with a team of detectives working to solve the high-profile case. Details of the efforts are contained in a freedom...

Yale student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed to death on Dec. 4, 1998 in the East Rock section of New Haven. Nineteen years after the slaying, there is renewed attention being paid to the unsolved case.

Yale student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed to death on Dec. 4, 1998 in the East Rock section of New Haven. Nineteen years after the slaying, there is renewed attention being paid to the unsolved case.

Sports

The UConn football team has made a number of changes to its lineup in advance of Saturday's game at SMU, some out of necessity due to injury, others simply because certain players weren't performing well enough. News on the injury front that emerged from Randy Edsall's weekly press conference Tuesday...

In the summer of 2014, Emmitt Matthews Jr. was an eighth-grader playing in a tournament when he walked out a door and saw a larger-than-life figure walking in. It was coach Kevin Ollie, a couple of months past UConn's 2014 national championship. "I met — well, I didn't meet him when I was in eighth...

UConn's men's hockey team has been selected to finish seventh this season in Hockey East by its 11 league coaches. Boston University and UMass-Lowell are picked to finish first and second. The Huskies finished last season 12-16-8 (8-10-4 in Hockey East) and in ninth place in what was then a 12-team...

Connecticut

Alligators, swamp snakes and voodoo priestesses aren’t usually a big threat in Connecticut, but they’re invading a corner of Lake Compounce this fall. The Voodoo Swamp is the newest feature of the Haunted Graveyard this year, where creator Ernie Romegialli plans his 19th season of Halloween-themed...

A West Hartford man pleaded guilty Monday to felony misconduct with a motor vehicle for his role in a Farmington crash that killed an Avon grandmother last fall. He faces up to five years in prison at his November sentencing. Bennett Dunbar, 27, was initially charged with second-degree manslaughter...

A Hartford Superior Court jury took two hours to convict Anthony Pernell of murder and other charges in connection with the March 2015 killing of Lilliana Restreppo. Pernell, 40, took the stand during his trial and told jurors his version of what happened the day of the shooting, but jurors did...

Business

Whether the seller or the buyer of a house, it's likely that both have "closing day" circled on their calendar. It also means a "walk-through" of the property prior to signing the closing documents by the buyer. On page 3 of the Connecticut Purchase and Sale Contract, Section 8 speaks to the condition...

City and industry leaders hope the creation of a new startup accelerator in Hartford’s insurance sector will make the city a hub for new ideas. But some local economists say the city and state’s budget woes might scare off fledging companies. On Monday Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and insurance...

The developers of two derelict structures on the corner of Pearl and Trumbull streets have an agreement to purchase a neighboring apartment building on the same block. The New York firms of Girona Ventures and Wonder Works Construction and Development Corp. have agreed to purchase Trumbull on the...

Opinion

Voices of nurses are almost completely missing in the national and state level debate on health care, which is not a surprise. I suspect that many nurses put the energy that might have gone to policymaking into their daily nursing practice instead: sending a card to the grieving spouse of a patient...

Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory weakened by a long recession, has now been knocked out by Hurricane Maria. It desperately needs the extra federal aid that Texas, Louisiana and Florida are getting for Hurricane Harvey's punch. If only Puerto Rico had their political influence. It's hard to overstate...

A true American would support Colin Kaepernick's right to kneel during the national anthem — even if he or she disagreed with the views of the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. A true American would support the right of players and coaches to kneel in solidarity Sunday — even while disagreeing...

Nation & World

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented that Puerto Rico had been "destroyed" by Hurricane Maria but insisted that his administration is doing an "amazing job" in helping the U.S. territory recover. Trump, who has faced mounting questions about his commitment to addressing the island's plight,...